can you talk to your doctor about the wellbutrin exacerbating anxiety, just to see if it could be? i have bad anxiety and stuff too but its never done it to me... but i've read that it does give some people bad anxiety even if they dont suffer from anxiety before starting the medicine ( for depression or smoking cessation )

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something is ramping it up... i dont know much about the sleep meds like ambien but i would consider looking into that too because if i took something like ambien i think it would make me feel more anxious...

are there any anniversaries of things that are near or passed or coming up or whatever that may be subconsiously causing increased anxiety?

i know my birthday in december and then the following birthday of my ex in feburary really made me feel alot worse... our anniversary was nov 21 too so it was like a wam wam wam attack to my depression and stuff...

i know it makes me mad when someone tells me to just try to relax... so dont take me the wrong way because i completely understand how you are feeling... but we have to try to breathe, try to take it easy, try to distract the mind... take warm bath or whatever kind of thing that really soothes you... baby/pamper yourself...
get your boyfriend to give you a full body massage or something

and call the doc and talk to him about maybe the meds increasing the anxiety...
it happens sometimes... even on a med that may of worked great in the past it might have a different effect in the future when started again... atleast this is what i have seen/read...

medications are tricky.... they are helpful, but it has to be the right medications...

starting out at 300mg wellbutrin xl is a little high i think, should of started at 75/150 or so and then went up... but im not sure if the effects would linger since you've been on it for a few weeks i would of thought that should be fine by now...

there really isn't a good cure for these things besides working out the reasons that we get these panics and anxieties... meds just try to slow it down so that we can process it to try to resolve those things and come up with good coping skills to deal with it ya know? atleast this is the way i view it... im not a professional of course...

klonopins are great for numbing it while you are taking them, but they dont fix it at all and it can make it worse because you get that relief feeling and then when the anxiety comes back you are like ****!!! because you had that relief and was relaxed for a little while... even if its same level of anxiety it feels intensified if that makes sense?
this is my experience with it atleast...

it sucks so bad, just try to breathe and do little things that distract you....
for example, i tap my leg ALOT ... i do it subconsiously but its something that i realized i was doing and seems like it is to try to change my focus from whats going on inside my mind to the tapping on my leg...
it probably looks weird to other people but they probably just think im being ADHD and playing music in my head or something

when is your next apt with the doctor?

did you look into that ptsd stuff?